The progress of events has rendered the interoceanic route across the narrow portion of Central America vastly important to the commercial world, and especially to the United States, whose possessions extend along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and demand the speediest and easiest modes of communication.
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of a canal for trade and communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States.
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